The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-30
A Lesson with a Moral.
WHEN WILL OUR EYES BE OPENED TO THIS
GREAT NATIONAL CALAMITY.

The year 1886 played sad havoc with
many prominent men of our country.
Many of them died without warning,
passing away apparently in the full
flush of life.
Others were sick but comparatively
short time. We turn to our files and
are astonished to find that most of them
died of apoplexy, of paralysis, of nerv-
Gus prostration, of malignant blood
humor, of Bright's disease, of heart
disease, of kidney disease, of rheuma-
tism or of pneumonia.
1t is singular that most of our promi-
nent men die of these disorders. Any
journalist who watches the telegraph
reports will be astonished at the num-
Der of prominent victims of these dis
orders.
Many statements have appeared in
our paper with others to the effect that
the diseases that carried off so many
prominent men in 1886 are really one
disease, taking different names accord
ing to the location of the fatal effects.
When valuable horse perishes it
becomes the nine days talk of the
sporting world, and yet thousands of
ordinary horses are dying every day.
Their aggregate loss is enormous, and
yet their death creates no comment.
So it is with individuals. The cause
of death of prominent men creates COM
ment, especially when it can be shown
that one unsupported disease carries off
most of them, and yet "vast numbers
of ordinary men and women die before
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cause"
1t is said if the blood is kept free
from uric acid that heart disease, par
alysis, nervous prostration, pneumonia,
rheumatism, and many cases of con-
sumption, would never be known. This
uric acid, we are told, is the waste of
the system, and it is the duty of the
kidneys to remove this waste.
We are told that if the kidneys are
maintained in perfect health the uric,
kidney, acid is kept out of the blood
and these sudden and universal diseases
caused by uric acid will, in large
measure, disappear.
But how shall this be done? 1t is
folly to treat effects. If there is any
known way of getting at the cause that
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We believe that Warmers safe cure, OF
which so much has been written, and
so much talked of by the public gener
ally, and which can be obtained OF
dealers everywhere, is now recognized
by impartial physicians and the public
as the one specific for such diseases.
Because public attention has beer
directed to this great remedy by means
of advertising some persons have no
believed in the remedy. We canno
see how Mr.. Warner could immediately
benefit the publcin any other way, anC
his valuable specific should not be con
demned because some nostrums have
come before the public in the same
way, any more than that all doctors
should be condemned because so man,
of them are incompetent.
, 1t is astonishing what good opinions
you hear on every side of that grea
remedy, and public opinion, thus baset
upon an actual experience, has all thu
weight and importance of absolute
truth.
AT this time of the year, the uric aci'
in the blood invites pneumonia ant
rheumatism, and there is not mai
who does not dread these monsters o
disease; but he need have no fear o
them, we are told, if he rid the bloo
of the uric acid cause. These word
are strong, and may sound like an ad
} vertisement, and be rejected as sue
by minimizing people, but we believ
J they are the truth, and as such SHOULD
be spoken by every truth-loving news
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